r/sleeperbattlestations

This is my first post here, an OEM-themed sleeper build.

The riveted drive bays were removed for E-ATX clearance. The front & rear fans are wired as pairs, and I even bought a whole parts case just to get a 4th purple fan mount. The GPU dual (6+2) is routed through a custom grommeted hole. I also made a custom extension that removed the extra +2 connector.

Buttoned it up with black Xeon/NVIDIA decals from eBay & a Black Mesa decal from geekenspiel.com

Specs:

CPU: (2x) Xeon E5-2699 v3 18 core 36 thread (36 core 72 thread total)

RAM: 64gb Corsair Vengeance 2400mhz DDR4

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 12gb

PSU: Corsair RM850x

MOBO: Machinist x99 MD8

Storage: WD_Black SN850x 2tb Nvme M.2

Really like the aesthetics and branding on this Lenovo ThinkStation P520, Apparently it's designed by aston martin? Anyway I wanted to either convert one into a gaming pc because its a workstation, or get a similar aesthetic case and just slap a thinkstation decal on it

Got my hands on this.

Planning on swapping with a decent ddr4 build with rx570 OG Strix!

My dad has been wanting a desktop again after not having one for over 10 years, so I decided I'm going to build him a retro modern PC for his birthday out of his old HP Pavilion 6683 (Celeron turd with 64MB)... This is my first "retro" build. I'm upgrading mine, and I don't want to waste my old 10700 and 1650 Super, so thats what I'm going with here. I've found all the parts I need except for a frickin PSU. What is this? A SFX? I couldn't believe how small it was when I opened it up. Can anyone recommend a decent one? Because I am not familiar with cramped cases at all.

This has been a fun little project that is surprisingly capable (to me). We've got a Lenovo Thinkstation p320 that I snagged off fleabay for 95 bucks. It came with an e3-1240 v6 that will be swapped out to an e3-1280 v6 (when it arrives). It only had a single 8gb Samsung ddr4 ecc 2133mhz stick so I got 3 more to bring system total to 32gb. It had a whopping 250w psu, it honestly feels like there is nothing inside of it hahaha its so lightweight. Upgraded that to the Thermaltake 500w, I'm not happy with the cable management but there are a LOT of extra cables with it being non-modular. It was 30 bucks though im not mad. It's booting windows 10 off of a 512gb SP 2.5 ssd, and has a 1tb wd blue 3.5 for bulk storage.

For graphics, this came with the esteemed nvidia GeForce 8400gs. It was a bit too much of a card for me, I'd never utilize it to the fullest potential. I decided to downgrade to the dell rtx 2060 super 8gb /s. Very happy with the dell card so far. I opted for a single fan card as anything longer would force me to remove the front panel connection on the motherboard. I wanted this project to look/function as close to OEM but crank the specs up.

For cpu cooling I ordered the vetroo v3 tower cooler. The exhaust fan will be upgraded to an arctic p9 max and i will be adding an arctic p8 max to the front for intake. I'm hopeful that all of this combined with a custom fan curve will keep temps down with the side panel on. I've been running furmark on it for quite some time with the panel off just to make sure everything holds up under load.

Let me know what you guys think or what I should change! Last 2 pics just for giggles. The fan on that 8400gs was SHOT and screaming whenever the pc was on hahaha

Your thoughts 🤔

Hello everyone. I'm new here and have been checking out everyone's builds, and some not yet started foundations. I picked up an old school lan party case and am thinking of a dual zeon E5 V3 20 core monster. There is plenty of room in this monster. Let me know what you think? I'm open to ideas, but not open to cutting up a 23 year old case that's in good shape. Just an FYI, "your computer store" was a shop in Gillette Wyoming organized in 2003, the year this case was made. I went down a rabbit hole or 2. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is a dell inspiron 1501, I love how it looks and feels and I would like to have a modern laptop that looks like this and has all the ports! The ports are Ethernet, 4 USB A ports, vga out (would prefer hdmi but vga is fine), mic in and line out and a optical drive. I also like replaceable ram and battery!

I recently got a BC250 mining board and decided to turn it into a gaming PC.

Like my previous builds, the case is made entirely out of LEGO. I didn’t use any screws or glue—except for some double-sided tape on the fans for safety. They can be fully secured with bricks as well, but since they’re moving parts, I chose to use tape instead.

Thermals are surprisingly good, and the structure is very solid.

It can also be connected and separated modularly with the monitors I built before.

Hope you enjoy it

Specs:

- Board: BC250 mining board

- GPU: Integrated (BC250)

- Memory: 16GB GDDR6 (onboard)

- Storage: SSD

- Cooling: ​120mm fan×6​

- Case: Custom LEGO build

Cables are a mess but try not to look at them😜

Specs are

I7 7700k

Gtx 1080ti

64gb ddr ram

512gb m.2 nvme

2tb hdd

500w psu (a little low on wattage but it runs fine)

Build specs

- 5700x3D

- Thermal right 240mm AIO

- Patriot Viper 32gb 3600mhz RAM

- 9070XT Reaper

Curently on the hunt for a BD drive just to finish it off

After three weeks of waiting for parts, trial and error, and getting used and theming Linux. This build is finished. Everything works, lots of thing even better than they ever did on Windows.

Finally decided to embark on an AT conversion mod with as minimal dremel work as possible, and I decided to do that by the use of riser cables and M.2 -> Oculink adapters to give an ITX board with bifurcation (the biggest board I could fit here) the ability to host multiple PCIE devices. This prevents me from having to chop up the back of the case, move the power supply, or sacrifice any of the drive bays I'll be utilizing for storage devices.

This is currently a proof of concept, it boots and is stable with PCIE set to 4.0 in the bios (I don't own any 5.0 devices) and I'm able to experiment with AI and lossless scaling without any issue (hence the two GPUs)

I was going to modify the cooler on the 4060ti to an ITX version but decided to vertically mount the main rendering GPU instead because that gives me the ability to use better and bigger GPUs in the future while continuing to use the 4060 LP as the output.

Next steps are to mount a dual SFP+ 10Gbe NIC and an HBA so I can mount a storage bay in the expansion slots

So I've had a few messages about temps and airflow so here we are. My 9070XT hasn't been limited other than an undervolt. I'm at +10% power (maxed) with the fan speeds not exceeding 50% for testing purposes. Honestly, I'm pleased with that although for the sake of it, I'll run at 0% or -10% power since frame rates are great for my use.

Airflow for the GPU is via those top vents pictured, AIO is drawing cool air from the underside and exhausting though the side. Literally, that's it!

Just got this Compaq for 10€ and im trying to main it cause laptop doesnt have a dedicated gpu. What kinda mods should i use tho i asked ai it says its very limited so idk. The cpu is a amd phenom 2/II and didnt come with ram. Any ideas? (Im putting windows 10 on this if i can)

16 GB of DDR4 RAM 3200mh

Radeon RX 5500

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Gigabyte B550M DS3H motherboard

No peripherals are connected yet, but

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